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Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Video Tutorial - Setting Inkscape's Default Page Properties

When I was making last night's video, I thought to myself "maybe some people will wonder how Inkscape always starts up with a 12x12 page on my computer" and thought I might do a short video on how to set that up. Then today, someone asked about that very thing, so I knew it was a good idea! :)

UPDATE April 2015
I received a comment on this post today, saying that this technique no longer works on Inkscape v. 0.91 (the current latest version at time of writing). I have stuck with version 0.48 ever since I installed it so I thought I'd better install the new version and check it out for myself! I installed v. 0.91 and the process for setting up the default page size to 12", as shown in the video below, still works just fine as far as I can see, it's worked for me anyway.

Thank you so much Dan! That was a very helpful video tutorial. I hope you will post more in the future. It was very clear and easy for even a blonde to understand!Thanks again Dan! Keep up the good work...we all truely appreciate it as you can see!Michelle

Thx Dan, for this tip and all the other goodies!For Mac users, the process is similar but to find the defalt.svg file, go to the Finder, Choose "Go to Folder" from the go menu and type/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/templatesThat'll put you in the right folder and you can follow Dan's instrux from there.

You make me feel so smart when I can actually do this stuff! I was able to follow right along with the video and make the changes. Thanks for helping to reduce Inkscape's intimidation factor. Hope your toothache is better soon!